Reflective Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Everyday people all over the world are constantly judged and criticized for their appearance, how they act, or what they believe in. Many thought that their religion made them more superior than others. This kind of thinking is insidious. Not only is this destructive to the individual's feelings, but it can cause greater problems around the world. For instance, the Holocaust. The holocaust was a mass murder of thousands of people. The nefarious Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, believed that anyone who was not Arian, blue eyes and blonde hair, was inferior. Although many different races and religious cultures were targeted by the Nazis, the holocaust was generally aimed towards the Jewish culture. He got other people to join his movement
Unlike the rest of his family, Elie lived to tell his story. In 1956, Wiesel's book, Night, was officially published. Night told the story of what happened behind the doors of one of the biggest concentration camps. The name of this camp was Auschwitz. Thousands of people were taken to this camp along with numerous other camps. Now the camps That Elie and his family were sent to were not like the happy, fun camps filled with games and activities you think of, concentration camps were filled with pain and suffering. Elie tells us his thought of the first night at the camp, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never, thus showing his permanent scarring from this horrific tragedy. They were forced to work and those that were to unfit to work were killed or taken to labs were they were experimented on. Every day was the same thing,